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DNA relatedness of Thermus strains, description of Thermus brockianus sp. nov., and proposal to reestablish Thermus thermophilus (Oshima and Imahori)
International journal of systematic bacteriology - 1 Jul 1995
Williams R A, Smith K E, Welch S G, Micallef J, Sharp R J
Abstract excerpt
Aerobic, thermophilic, gram-negative bacteria obtained from Yellowstone National Park that were placed in the genus Thermus on the basis of phenotypic data were examined by chemotaxonomic techniques to determine their peptidoglycan compositions, their respiratory quinones, their mean DNA base compositions, and their levels of DNA-DNA homology as determined by both the filter hybridization and reassociation rate...
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